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Deaths in Gaza rise to 34,622, after the deaths of 26 people in the last few hours
The number of deaths in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli offensive has increased to 34,622, after hospitals in the area reported the death of 26 people in recent hours, the Ministry of Health, controlled by the Government of Hamas, reported on Friday.
“The Israeli occupation committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 25 deaths and 51 people injured, during the last 24 hours,” the Ministry said in a brief statement, in which it recalled that there are numerous corpses under the rubble and in areas inaccessible to emergency services, due to attacks by the Israeli Army.
In addition, the Ministry detailed that in the 210 days of the Israeli military offensive, 77,867 people have been injured.
The Palestinian agency Wafa had reported the death of at least six Palestinians during the night of Thursday to Friday, including four children, in an Israeli airstrike against a residential building in the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, turned into the last refuge for the displaced from the north.
Local sources told Wafa that Israeli fighter planes bombed a residential building in Rafah, resulting in the death of six civilians, four children and two adults. In addition, an indeterminate number of people were injured.
Another residential building east of this border city with Egypt, which awaits a land offensive and where more than 1.4 million Palestinians live overcrowded, was also bombed causing civilians to be injured, the Palestinian agency details.
Another nine civilians were injured in the center of the enclave, after an Israeli attack on the Bureij refugee camp, according to Palestinian sources, who did not determine their number.
No conflict has caused a level of destruction similar to that of Gaza since World War II, the United Nations reported, which estimated that post-war reconstruction could cost up to $50 billion.
“We have not seen anything like this since 1945,” Abdallah al Dardari, director of the Regional Office for the Arab States of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), said on Thursday. “That intensity, in such a short time and the massive scale of destruction,” he added.
More than 70% of all the homes in the enclave have been destroyed, lamented this UN official, and assured that it will be necessary to remove about 37 million tons of debris.
In comparison, during Israel’s war in Gaza in 2014, which lasted 51 days of summer, about 2.4 million tons of ruins were removed.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared itself “extremely concerned” about Israeli plans to intervene on a large scale military in Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, where 1.2 million Palestinians are overcrowded, many after fleeing months of hostilities further north.
Such an operation “would make the humanitarian catastrophe even more worse,” said the representative of the WHO in the Palestinian Territories, Rik Peeperkorn, at a press conference.
He also stressed that the WHO and its partners are making contingency plans to ensure that the health system is prepared for a military operation, although he recalled that in many cases, as has happened in areas further north of Gaza, many hospitals are no longer accessible or are even direct targets of armed attacks.
As part of its preparations for a possible large-scale operation, WHO has established a new field hospital in Rafah, and a storage area for medical supplies.
“Despite the measures we take, the health system, already weakened, will not be able to withstand the enormous devastation that the incursion would possibly cause,” he said.
Peeperkorn expressed his fear that the three hospitals in Rafah will lose the ability to care for patients in the event of a large-scale operation.
He concluded by noting that Gaza’s health system “barely survives,” with only 12 of the 36 hospitals in the strip and 22 of the 88 health facilities partially functioning.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, reiterated on Thursday that the invasion of Rafah, a city bordering Egypt and turned into the last refuge of the Palestinians, is still standing, despite the parallel negotiations with Hamas on a possible ceasefire.
International
Zelenski urges global action after russian ballistic missile strike
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski called on the international community Thursday to “respond” to Russia’s ballistic missile strike on Ukraine, which he said has heightened the “escalation and brutality” of the conflict.
“The world must react. So far, there has been no strong response,” Zelenski lamented in a social media statement.
“We must act. We must pressure. We must push Russia towards real peace, which is only achievable through strength,” he added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Thursday that Russia had launched a new type of hypersonic ballistic missile against Ukraine in its “non-nuclear configuration.”
International
Elon Musk plans sweeping cuts to U.S. bureaucracy and spending
Elon Musk has pledged massive cuts to government programs, subsidies, and bureaucracy in his anticipated role as a “State Efficiency” leader, according to an article published Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.
The billionaire entrepreneur plans to target hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending, including funds for public broadcasting and Planned Parenthood. Musk called government bureaucracy an “existential threat” to American democracy.
Teaming up with fellow businessman and Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy, Musk aims to streamline federal regulations and implement significant administrative and cost reductions.
“We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as external volunteers, not federal officials or employees,” Musk and Ramaswamy stated in the article.
International
Putin warns of escalation, suggests strikes on western weapon suppliers
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the conflict in Ukraine is taking on the characteristics of a “global war,” warning that Russia might target Western nations supplying Ukraine with weapons used in attacks on Russian territory.
These remarks come after a day of heightened tensions, during which Russia launched a state-of-the-art medium-range missile designed to carry a nuclear warhead. However, this particular missile was loaded with conventional explosives.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the missile strike, calling it the action of a “deranged neighbor” using Ukraine as a “military testing ground.”
Earlier, Ukraine accused Russia of attacking the central-eastern city of Dnipro with a missile exhibiting “all the characteristics” of an intercontinental missile, an unprecedented development in the ongoing conflict.
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